Hillside views a bus, train or tram ride, or quick walk away Since our original 2014 article, we have decided to create an updated version. In the last seven years, bus routes and operators have come and gone, and your author’s knowledge of the hills has improved since then. Was it really seven years since we first […]
Read More Run to the Hills 2021: A Go Cheapway UpdateForthcoming service changes for Oldham and Saddleworth bus passengers For Oldham’s bus passengers, there is little to report in April’s changes compared with Tameside’s changes. Stagecoach’s mere tinkering around the edges only affects one route.
Read More Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 11 April 2021EXCLUSIVE: Multi-Million Private Sector capital scheme to transform Mossley and Saddleworth The pandemic has been disastrous for our hospitality industry. Pubs have been closed for over a year with some facing depubification. With Brexit in full swing and many countries off limits to Britons thanks to COVID-19, the British tourism industry have changed the definition […]
Read More New Ski Resort Set to Bolster Tameside TourismStagecoach Group invests in AI based bus route planning tool Investment will help plan the changes in travel coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic; New AI platform Optibus will help improve service delivery and provide more efficient timetables; State-of-the-art artificial intelligence, advanced algorithms and cloud computing used to make timetables smarter; Major technological transformation will […]
Read More AI’s ‘Aye’ For The 111: Introducing OptibusStagecoach Group becomes first UK bus operator to invest in national roll-out of new bridge alert technology £4m project to strengthen existing safety measures to prevent bridge strikes; Enhancement to GreenRoad’s leading driver safety and fuel-efficiency system; 8,000 buses covered in England, Scotland and Wales by summer 2021.
Read More Low Bridge Strikes Scuppered by Bridge Alert SystemLee Wasnidge to succeed Elisabeth Tasker in 2021 Lee Wasnidge joins Stagecoach’s largest bus company on 04 January 2020; Successor to Elisabeth Tasker has Background in running rail and air services in Greater Manchester at senior level; New MD has extensive customer service and stakeholder management experience, whilst recognising Stagecoach’s major role in supporting the […]
Read More New Year and New Man for Stagecoach Greater ManchesterStagecoach Greater Manchester drivers spread a bit of Christmas cheer to raise funds for local communities Given how strange 2020 has been, Father Christmas trading in his sleigh for a double decker bus now seems run-of-the-mill. Who could blame him as he could use the top deck for storing presents? Unless he uses an open […]
Read More Official! Santa Swaps Sleigh For BusSignificant changes to two key routes and early introduction of School Holiday Timetable On Sunday, Stagecoach Greater Manchester’s latest timetable updates will see the retiming of many of its trunk routes to School Holiday schedules, and changes to two trunk routes in the Tameside and Glossop area. To a point, these routes will see their […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes Extra (29 November 2020)What do you get if you cross an extremely talented musician with a pretty good blogger and dancer (!) on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake: this sub-headline isn’t a dad joke, though a fast-paced mixture of dad jokes, dad dancing and mad music is behind one of Future Directions CIC’s most notable projects. Known […]
Read More A Mission to Entertain: Future Directions’ Fun Time FridayBauer purchase sees loss of Rochdale, Oldham and Tameside local station If you like listening to local radio stations on a bog-standard analogue radio receiver, Bauer’s latest acquisition should fill you with dread. After 21 years of serving Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside, Revolution 96.2 will be consigned to radio heaven. Alongside Piccadilly Radio’s immediate successors, […]
Read More Revolution 96.2 to Become Greatest Hits Radio
